Biography

Ballerina

She was a Chairman of the Board of Career Transition For Dancers from 1991 to 2015, when Career Transition for Dancers merged with the Actors Fund of America as well as a member of the Board of Directors of The Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to extending the dream, dance legacy and spirit of Isadora Duncan..

She received the 1975 Dance Magazine Award, honoring her dedication to, and enrichment of, the art of dance. In 1978 she received the Harkness Ballet's first annual Dance Award. She is the only two-time recipient annual awards from Dance Educators of America (1981 and 1988). In 1988, the now-defunct magazine New York Woman gave Gregory its first "Showstopper of the Year" award. The New York Public Library designated her a "Lion of the Performing Arts" in 1989. She received the lifetime-achievement Certificate of Merit from the National Arts Club in 1991. Hofstra University awarded Gregory an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree in 1993, and she received an honorary doctorate from State University of New York-Purchase College in 1995.

She began taking ballet lessons at the age of five.

Her dance training first started at Lorraine's California Children's Ballet Company for four years, after which she studied with Carmelita Maracci, Michel Panaieff, and Robert Rossellat.